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20 Reviews of Virtual ][

The Apple II was the first computer I used. I still know the 6502 instruction set by heart, and having an almost perfect recreation of that great machine simply brings me joy. There is nothing I can do on the Apple II that I couldn't do faster on any other computer. But booting up the Apple II (hearing the faithful recreation of the whirr-whirr-clack-clack-clack of the booting disk), and typing 'call -151' to get into the Monitor is something that only few people will ever get. I do. And I love it. Why? Because I can.
The price is great considering the amount of work that has gone into creating a near-perfect simulation (just imagine the amount of work required to get the one-bit speaker of the Apple II emulator to produce correct sound on a Mac with a polyphonic synthesizer).

hey all, I was wondering if this program was still maintained and developed? I see it's a shareware program, but all the old apple emulators seem to be several years old without any recent updates. I didn't want to pay for it if it was no longer supported, so I thought I would ask first.
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The Apple II was the first computer I used. I still know the 6502 instruction set by heart, and having an almost perfect recreation of that great machine simply brings me joy. There is nothing I can do on the Apple II that I couldn't do faster on any other computer. But booting up the Apple II (hearing the faithful recreation of the whirr-whirr-clack-clack-clack of the booting disk), and typing 'call -151' to get into the Monitor is something that only few people will ever get. I do. And I love it. Why? Because I can.
The price is great considering the amount of work that has gone into creating a near-perfect simulation (just imagine the amount of work required to get the one-bit speaker of the Apple II emulator to produce correct sound on a Mac with a polyphonic synthesizer).

It's been quite a long time since a review was posted, but Virtual ][ is an excellent, excellent emulator. There are a few different Apple II emulators around, but Virtual ][ provides the best experience by far. Supports a lot of models and different internal options and cards, and a great attention to detail (perhaps my favorite example of this is the fact that the disk seek noises are actually faithfully reproduced in real time). Supports a lot of image formats and interacts well with ADTpro, good host integration including the ability to mount a folder as a ProDOS volume. And it is actively maintained. Much cheaper, better connected, faster (if you want it to be), and more space efficient than the physical machine, and you'll never any need to reseat or replace the RAM chips.

Very nice, well designed and working emulator. Yet way overpriced! Yes, I know it takes time to develop such thing, possibly much more than a generic doc-based application. Yet with this expectations I am not going to even think of spending a penny on it.- the price has changed some revisions ago, so has my attitiude towards this app.

This application is awesome! Apart from running all my favourite games from my primary school days, I can actually do some useful stuff as with my Maths class!
The licence is a bit costly, but well worth the money!

It is awesome that an old computer like that with plenty of freewares and open sources available on PC platform, but on Apple's own platform you have to pay for that. For a switcher it is unbelievable you have to pay for so many things.

V][ is great fun for fans of the Apple ][ machines. Very faithful emulator. Whenever Ive emailed the author he's been responsive and even added some features I suggested. V][ is obviously being actively updated and improved.
This great app brings me back to my Apple ][ days.
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Thanks Gerard!!

If this thing were any better I would buy it a ring and make it my woman. Anyone who cannot figure out how to use it needs a refresher course in the basics, do not blame your inability to function in society on the developer of software. It really isn't that complicated just read the directions ! Nice App ! Keep up the good work and forget the opinions of the malcontents

Incredible emulation program. I don't know why anyone is having trouble. You need to download an Apple // ROM, rename it, add it to the folder, select it in 'Insert Disk', then select 'Reset.' Then, presto!, you have yourself an Apple //.

Well on a G4 under 10.2.8 version 2.5.1 does not run (and yes I do have a ROM file). Looks nice based on the pictures on their web site, and a nice logo for the application but other than that, NADA. Sure seems like vaporware. Well there is always the next revision.